The mysteriously trousered Andrew Marr. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
This week, there was an awful lot of excitement on the television - and in the nation in general - when a British person did quite well at tennis.
I like to think we here at Take 10 have our fingers on the zeitgeist, so I was going to propose a list of real or imagined sportspeople on the telly. But that seemed a little impersonal. Also I know nothing about sport. So instead, a list of 10 television Andys!
And Andrews. And other variations on the form. So in honour of that man who was doing very well in his chosen sport before being knocked out by someone who was better: 10 Andys off the telly. In - and I hope you all know this by now - a completely arbitrary and non-authoritative manner and no particular order at all.
Some People called Andy from the telly! In no particular order and for no reason whatsoever!
1. Andy Pandy. Almost 60 years old and still going strong. And still wearing stupid trousers.
2. Andrew Marr. Quite possibly also 60 years old and still wearing stupid trousers, as he is ageless and mainly seen from the waist up.
3. Handy Andy. Has a builder ever been more widely embraced by the nation than this cheeky chappie? Well, yes, but his name was Bob. Which doesn't fit this week's criteria. We'll do builders another week.
4. Andrew Neil. Has a lot of gravitas for a person with a head like a potato.
5. Andie McPhee (Dawson's Creek). Quite apart from the fact she is little and pretty and elfin, I was trying to open up the gender spectrum, which was difficult with this list.
6. Andy. You know, as in Lou and Andy. Added "a'want that one" to every annoying person's lexicon of catchphrases.
7. Andy Kaufman. One of the most important (and oddest) comedians on American TV. Well, not any more, because he's dead. But traditionally.
8. Andi Peters. Used to spend much time in a broom cupboard. Doesn't seem to have aged more than about a year in the time it's taken the rest of us to age 20. And now has made it all the way to the quarter-finals of Celebrity Masterchef!
9. Andy Millman. Because it's Ricky Gervais. And he's a genius. According to almost all of the internet (and himself).
10. Nell McAndrew. She's on the television, isn't she? Or at least I remember her being very popular in the first series of I'm a Celebrity ...
And oh, there are so many more, and that's not even counting the wildly inaccurate ones like AnneDi (amond), because that would just be ridiculous.
Roll call, then - but only if they're called Andy or some variant of such.
Andy?
